Ixquick brings back a little bit of the fun the internet used to give us.Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Before doing anything you need to set this engin's parameters right for you. After that you will find out searching info works really great and it gets better and better when you discover the amount of searching power that can be unleashed when using the advanced search feature. Et voila: a full-blown search engin that doesn't build a profile around your every step! Ixquick brings back a little bit of the fun the internet used to give us.

Search results could be betterRated 4 out of 5 stars

Add-on works excellent, Ixquick's privacy works excellent too, what I don't like are the results of Ixquick search. Terms I was looking for very frequently absent in the found pages, phrases ignored, excluded terms appear as mandatory - quite a waste of time trying to find something. Last years this seems to be common for many search engines.

What helps without solving a problem: using advanced search. It looks like simple search uses "any of the terms" option, no matter are you using "+" or "AND".

For some reason, Ixquick displays above results something like "you used exclusion operator " - ", to see results without it, click here" - annoying, as if you don't know that you tried to do more specific search and were offered the unfiltered bulk instead.

Many results are obsolete (no search for the past year), so if your search is time sensitive, use Google-like StartPage, the sister search engine of Ixquick, which does privacy searches too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A big boost for privacy!Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I put this one in my "Apollo!" Pack" for a big reason! The fact is companies like Google cannot be trusted and they keep too much of your information on file. Companies such as them will keep it for 6+ months and it all can be given to marketers, big brother, divorce attornies... Yuck!! I have to say I read a number of the other reviews and I wont repeat what others said very well earlier. I also would rather trade a few ads- and since when has stinky old Google been ad-free??- for the privacy. Lastly, I want to respond to Bamail. I hear what you are saying but Ixquick isn't really what failed you. Although private mode is good- it by no means is complete security. I am not just saying it to promote my collection but mine has a COMPLETE security package with detailed instructions. To get the job done you need to take care of a bunch of things such as scripts, cross-site requests, cookies, IP, redirects, proxies... If you do ALL of those things and configure them properly then you get to the promised land. No single one will do it all.

ixquick httpsRated 5 out of 5 stars

I have just recently changed over to ixquick https from scroogle.I have found it simple and easy to use.I have read the other reviews.Adds?What adds?I use Firefox w/Adblocker plus,I no see no stinkin adds.It's just like looking at Scroogle.I like It.

Love itRated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent review Demonio !!!!Started using Scroogle for privacy and still use it as my second choice for a search engine.Have been using Ixquick HTTPS as my primary for about 6 months with NO issues or complaints. Fast, accurate & not flooded with ads like Google. Yeah, a few ads on the page but hey everybody has to pay the bills !!Simply put : Get it..... Use it. You won't regret the switch.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

After Google moved to eliminate scroogle.org (the dedicated Google search proxy) yesterday, it is truly Ixquick's time to step up to the plate, in providing search results that respect users' privacy. Of course, Ixquick has been at it for some time, but the privacy issues, and the need for more search engines like Ixquick, are only now being properly highlighted in the media, while the behavior of Google and the other internet giants just gets worse and worse, as they manhandle their users' most intimate information.

Use this add-on and strike a blow for internet users' rights.Thank you.

Demonio89 takes it homeRated 5 out of 5 stars

Damn, I read Demonio89's take of privacy and information and it stopped me cold. It is a well thought out piece of writing. May I borrow it and send it, with your contact info to a privacy "expert," I met?

stephenmcarey@gmail.com

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

There is a growing shift in the definition of personal privacy. The original conception is that you have complete control over who has access to your information. The redefined version that lawmakers are foisting upon people is that governments and corporations should have control over your private information, but only the "right" people will be allowed to access it. It is proposed that this process is inevitable, and that instead of trusting ourselves with who should have access to our information, we should just give up our control and retreat to transparency. But who decides what the "right" people are? And who keeps an eye on them?

Transparency is increasingly substituted for trust, like margarine for butter. It may inspire similar feelings of confidence, but one cannot take the place of the other. In some situations, transparency is substituted because there is very low trustworthiness, and in other situations, it is used to shift the balance of power over information. Transparency and trust, while independent variables, are often conflated to result in similar feelings of confidence.

The battle between privacy and transparency increasingly rears its head due to technological advancement. In many seemingly civilized societies, the claim that you must give up privacy to gain security is often proposed when the safety of the society is threatened. Although this is a fallacy, it is used to take control over private information and purports to judiciously moderate itself through some level of transparency. It might be better said that you can trust an untrustworthy organization to act in an untrustworthy manner.

Privacy and anonymity are freedom-enhancing qualities; they are a strong safeguard against the footholds of totalitarianism, tyranny, oppression, and corruption and must be protected as essential rights. Those who wish to strip the bulwark protections of a free society should be viewed with the greatest suspicion, as you can't protect the freedom of a society by destroying it.

Anyways, it's about time we have a quality search engine that actually believes in protecting our ever eroding privacy rights.Did you know that AOL and Google know and keep records of everything you search for online.And yes, Ixquick has ads, but so does AOL, Google, and Yahoo, and many other search engines out there, and so what, they have bills to pay, just like everyone else.Running a search engine costs money and it is not cheap.

I recommend using the HTTPS version, which means the web pages are encrypted before being transmitted over the Internet.Ixquick uses AES-256 bit high grade encryption, which is very impressive indeed!It is the equivalent of sealing an envelope that contains a letter before mailing it, as opposed to just mailing a postcard that anyone can read.